THE HAGUE (Reuters) -NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday likened President Donald Trump to a "daddy" intervening in a schoolyard brawl after the U.S. leader used profanity when describing the war between Israel and Iran.
In comments to the press during a NATO summit in The Hague, Trump had compared fighting between Iran and Israel to children quarrelling.
"They've had a big fight, like two kids in a schoolyard. You know, they fight like hell, you can't stop them. Let them fight for about 2-3 minutes, then it's easy to stop them."
Rutte laughed and added: "And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get (them to) stop."
On Tuesday, following a ceasefire deal between Iran and Israel, Trump said Israel and Iran had been fighting "so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing".
Asked by a journalist whether he might be pouring too much praise and flattery on Trump, Rutte said: "No, I don't think so. I think it's a bit of a question of taste."
He described Trump as a "good friend" for more than a decade and then praised the U.S. president's role in making the NATO summit a success by "finally" getting Europe to boost military spending.
"So doesn't he deserve some praise?" Rutte asked.
"And when it comes to Iran, the fact that he took this decisive action, very targeted, to make sure that Iran would not be able to get his hands on a nuclear capability - I think he deserves all the praise."
Trump on Wednesday compared the impact of the U.S. bombing of Iran's nuclear sites to the end of World War Two, when the United States bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people.
"I don't want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don't want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing. That ended that war. This ended the war," Trump said.
(Reporting by Anthony Deutsch and Gram Slattery; Additional reporting by Andrew Gray; Editing by Aidan Lewis and Kevin Liffey)
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